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Despite their frightful appearance, centipedes cause no structural damage to your home and do not contaminate food. In fact, some people consider centipedes beneficial because they eat other household pests, such as cockroaches, silverfish, and spiders. But if nuisance centipedes are bugging you, call Adam’s.

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Adam’s exterminates centipedes by applying an EPA-approved residual insecticide treatment to the foundation and exterior perimeter of your home to keep centipedes from entering. Particular attention is given to all cracks, crevices, and possible entry sites. Depending on the centipede pressures around the structure, your Adam’s pest management professional may also choose to apply granular insecticide in a two to three foot band around the adjacent lawn or soil.

When needed, Adam’s will apply proven insecticides to interior areas where centipedes may hide, including baseboards, cracks, crevices, and wall voids.

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Centipedes usually gain access via holes and cracks in the foundation walls or by crawling under door gaps.

Centipedes become active during spring and live outdoors in damp and shaded areas.

During the summer, centipedes may enter buildings seeking shelter, where they become a nuisance pest.

WHAT DO CENTIPEDES EAT?

Centipedes feed on small creatures, such as bed bugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish, spiders, and other household insects, and even small animals.

Centipedes bite with their modified front legs.

The centipede’s front pair legs are pointed, fanglike appendages called forcipulates, which connect to poison glands on the first body segment immediately behind the centipede’s head.

Centipedes use their forcipulates to pierce their prey’s skin and then inject venoms into the cut; paralyzing the prey.

WHAT IS THE LIFECYCLE OF CENTIPEDES?

After mating, females usually lay their eggs in the soil or in rotting wood.

Some species curl around the eggs to protect and clean them. Other species cover the eggs with dirt and leave them alone.

Eggs hatch into larvae, which have four pairs of legs.

Every time the larvae molt, the number of legs increases.

The common house centipede can live for more than a year, while other species have been known to live for up to 6 years.

8 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CENTIPEDES:

Centipedes are not insects; centipedes are arthropods. In order to be considered an arthropod, the animal must be an invertebrate with an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages.

Centipedes groom themselves. After a meal, centipedes use their forcipulates to clean each leg from base to tip, in order. If a leg is missing, the centipede will still try to clean it in its correct order

Centipedes are mostly nocturnal hunters

Centipedes hunt their prey by leaping upon it or using their back legs in a technique described as "lassoing."

Centipedes are fast and can reach speeds of 16 inches per second.

Centipedes can regenerate lost legs.

Centipedes have poor eyesight. In fact, some centipede species don't even have eyes.

Centipedes detect prey through their antennae.

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